Vote Dean Potter, Nat Geo Adventurer of the Year

National Geographic Adventure magazine is holding open voting for Readers’ Choice Adventurer of the Year (<-click that link to vote!), and Dean Potter is in the running for his fusion of rock climbing>

Read about him here. And take note – the December/January issue is the last for National Geographic Adventure, so snag your copy now.

Dean Potter, eventual takeover of the world by wingsuit BASE, squirrel suit, Vote!

Slipstream

Potter writes for the Alpinist as well. There was a great story in there about his “freeBASE” approach. Y’all should check it out. In it is one of the best descriptions of what human flight is like that I have read. I believe it was issue 27…Here’s a link to get it since it probably isn’t on shelves any longer:
http://www.alpinist.com/doc/ALP27/feature-embracing-insanity
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Magical spot, all alone, with the helicopters

People

Happy Birthday, Melanie!

by Lara

Happy birthday Melanie!

Miss Melanie, of course, is one of Blue Skies Mag’s amazing contributors, and has been with us from the start. Inspirational, courageous, giving, loving, hilarious, and awesome, Melanie has helped our little magazine in more ways than we can count. We’ve heard from so many of you that her words impact your lives, too. So, join us in wishing this beautiful woman a great birthday and another fantastic year!

PS – Maybe a good birthday gift would be to like her Highcomms.com Facebook page ;)

PPS – We have a $5 reward for any information on how in hell #6 got so lucky.

Santa uses RDS!

by Kolla

A damn sweet video, featuring the good boys from Jump4Heros, brightening the day of children whose parents are currently serving in Afghanistan. Santa unfortunately couldn’t bring their mom or dads home for the holidays, but at least he was able to give them a good show, hand out some presents and most importantly – deliver the children heartfelt letters from their parents.

A nice article showing a close-up of Santa’s swooping setup can be found here.

Polte

by Lara

Team Polte is a brand new team from Finland. Team member Lauri says, “The concept of Polte is to have fun and fly free, and share it to the world by videos and photos. That’s how people can really see what Polte and skydiving is all about. Our future plans include competing and get more involved in different skydiving events around the world and arrange our own events in Finland. At the same time we offer services for companies to promote their products in form of videos, photos and stories.”

Team Polte: (l to r) Matti, Tuomas, and Lauri

Polte members:

• Lauri Aapro
• Tuomas Hulkkonen
• Matti Miilumäki
• Jonne Kuoksa

We can’t wait to see what comes out of Finland and Team Polte!

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